Jiangsu’s Xiangshui Petitioners Shut in Education Classes

AuthorLi Runwen et al.

57-year-old Wang Xinshu, of Jiangsu’s Xiangshui County, is a veteran of the 1979 China-Vietnamese War who sustained injuries. He went to Nanjing to petition after his home was confiscated. In Dec. 2007, the county court judge told him to go to the courthouse to discuss the housing issue, but he was shut into a petitioners’ education center run by the petition bureau.

The petitioners were shut into a windowless room with a steel door, kept isolated from one...

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